Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time—and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

In a breakthrough study, microbiologists at Brunel University London discovered that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common and ...

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...

Microbes form a biofilm in response to many factors, which may include cellular recognition of specific or non-specific attachment sites on a surface, nutritional cues, or in some cases, by ...

Biofilms are complex communities of organisms embedded in a self-produced polymeric matrix ubiquitous in natural and engineered aquatic environments. In both settings, biofilms are hotspots of ...